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Many independent hospitals join health systems to save money on expenses such as malpractice insurance, accounting and legal work. Hospitals can also pool their purchasing power to negotiate better rates for drugs and supplies. Hospitals pay the health system for their share of those costs. The model is now common across the United States, including in Connecticut, where most acute and general care hospitals are part of a larger system.
Thomas Fugate, a 22-year-old college graduate with no previous experience, has been appointed by US President Donald Trump to to a major terrorism-prevention post in the DHS.
More on Judge Badalamenti
John Badalamenti
en.wikipedia.org
... John Leonard Badalamenti (born August 22, 1973)[1] is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
He was appointed in 2020 by President Donald Trump. He previously served as a judge on the Florida Second District Court of Appeal from 2015 to 2020. ...
While teaching a seminar on originalism as an adjunct at University of Florida School of Law in the fall of 2024, Badalamenti gave an award to a student paper arguing that the Constitution of the United States favors white people, an award which is "automatically given to the student with the highest score" and that "sounds more prestigious than it is."[9][10]
In spring of 2025, the author of that paper, Preston Damksy, publicly called for Jewish people to be "abolished by any means necessary."[11] ...
Is this curious?
Virus Discovery Among Bats in China Fruit Orchards Draw Exposure Concerns
www.sciencealert.com
... Bats living among the orchards of Yunnan province in southwest China have been found harboring a variety of unknown pathogens in their kidneys, including two that are closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses. ...
The viruses of concern are both henipaviruses, which are known for their long genomes and wide range of hosts. More than half of the new viruses' genes match those of the Nipah and Hendra viruses, which, while highly lethal to humans who are infected, are relatively rare among our species.
It's unclear whether these two new henipaviruses have the genetic machinery to cross from bats to other species, but their similarity to known human pathogens means scientists will be keeping a close eye on them. ...
@#18 ... Why did anyone think ...
OK, I have comments ...
Yeah, a bunker-buster bomb seems to have the limits you describe.
Yeah, that is one BB bomb.
As illustrated in the graphic in this article ...
The U.S. could join Israel's war with Iran to deploy this 30,000-pound bomb (June 19, 2025)
www.axios.com
(as usual, kudos to the axios.com graphic team)
But what if more than one BB bomb is dropped, and the first ~loosens up the earth~ so that the second can penetrate more deeply?
That seemed to be the tactic here.
Did it work?
Early reports seem to indicate it did not.
But, time will tell ...
US Strikes on Iran Had Limited Impact on Nuclear Program, Early Report Shows
www.bloomberg.com
... American airstrikes had only a limited impact on Iran's nuclear program, according to early US intelligence findings, as the United Nations watchdog urged fresh inspection of the sites.
A report by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency said the bombing likely didn't cripple the core components of Iran's program below ground, including its centrifuges, according to people familiar with the assessments. ...
@#7
Also from the Wikipedia article ...
en.wikipedia.org
There's that eyebrow.
Pres Trump, in his appointments, seems to be focused more (mostly?) upon two things...
1) allegiance and and servitude.
2) a good media look (hence the Sec Hegseth make-up room in the Pentagon)
More from the article ...
... In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Senator Chris Murphy called out Trump for appointing Thomas Fugate.[emphasis mine]
"As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention," Murphy wrote -- referring to Fugate.
"22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he's a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job," his post read on X. ...
Mr Fugate seems to possess both of those qualifications.
But, what are his qualifications for the position he has been appointed to?
It's starting ...
And, fwiw, here in the northeast, we are in a major heat wave.
Too early in the season for this to occur, but there it is.
Back in the mid-80's when I decided to control the climate within my house, I determined that 24,000BTU of air-conditioning would be cool, so to speak.
Fast forward, 40 years later ...
Today, the air-conditioning can keep up with maintaining the house at 80 degrees, with a dew point in the mid-50's. But the compressor runs nearly 100% of the time.
Quite the change from 40 years ago when I had asked myself if I had over-estimated the amount of cooling I needed for the house, because the compressor back then ran less than 50% of the time.
What has changed in the past 40 years?